Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to be preparing carefully for his visit. He disappeared from public sight, presumably to clear his desk and bone up on the U.S. Though he is expected to make some sharply anti-Soviet comments while on U.S. soil, he is unlikely to repeat either the phrasing or the tone of his last public speech in the U.S., at a U.N. forum in 1974. Then he ridiculed U.S. efforts to search for peace, blasted "the two superpowers," and pronounced that, in the world as a whole, "revolution is the main trend." With his skillful sense of self-promotion and public...
Delta House's first episode, written by the Lampoon veterans who created the movie, is always amusing. Alas, the original's gleeful sexual reveries cannot be duplicated on TV, but the antiauthoritarian tone is intact. There are even gags about Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Arnold Toynbee, thus placing Delta House roughly two intellectual cuts above CBS's pompous The Paper Chase. Let the viewer beware, however, for future episodes will be written by different hands. Should ABC fail to exercise strong quality control, this promising spin-off could quickly go into a tailspin...
Mary Burns considered the time of day, the people in the meeting, the state of the world and L.B.J.'s frame of mind and tone of voice when he had said, "No calls." Then she put through the call...
Blier achieves his subversive vision by pushing his characters' behavior to outrageous extremes. Handkerchiefs is a wet dream gone beautifully berserk. The tone is set by the opening scene, in which Depardieu presents Dewaere, a total stranger, as a "gift" to his wife Solange. She remains indifferent to the men's shenanigans, and the men succumb to complete bafflement. They sit by Solange's bedside, aimlessly but poetically speculating about the mysteries that lie within her heart and mind. Only when the heroine falls for a 13-year-old prodigy (Riton) does she finally arouse from...
...From the tone of his campaign for governor, it was clear that Edward J. King wanted to shake up Massachusetts state government. But one unexpected consequence of the new Boston College broom's clean sweep at the State House has some Harvard administrators worried...